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Wild Card is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Simon West and starring Jason Statham, Michael Angarano, Milo Ventimiglia, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Anne Heche, and Sofia Vergara. Based on the 1985 novel Heat by William Goldman , it is a remake of the 1986 adaptation that starred Burt Reynolds . [ 4 ]
In some Austrian and South Tyrolean card games, one or more other cards may be used as wild cards, including the Weli, a special 6 of Bells, the 7 of Bells and 7 of Acorns. In the game of Perlaggen there are six or seven wild cards: four permanent Perlaggs - K or Maxl , 6 or Weli , 7 or Little Weli , the 7 of Bells or Bell-Spitz and 7 or ...
Hubert Auer (born c. 1950) is an Austrian schoolmaster and card game researcher who is particularly noted for his research into the historic Tyrolean game of Perlaggen which resulted in it being awarded the status of an item of immaterial cultural heritage by the Austrian UNESCO Commission, the first card game in the world to be so honoured.
Perlaggen (regionally also Perlåggen), formerly Perlagg-Spiel [1] ("game of Perlagg"), is a traditional card game which is mainly played in the regions of South Tyrol in Italy, the Tyrolean Oberland and the Innsbruck areas of Austria. It is the only card game to have been recognised by UNESCO as an item of Intangible Cultural Heritage. [2] [3]
Wild Cards began as a two-year-long [2] campaign of the Superworld role-playing game, gifted to George R. R. Martin by Victor Milán, [2] in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the players were science fiction writers, including Gail Gerstner-Miller, Milán, John J. Miller, Melinda M. Snodgrass, and Walter Jon Williams, and Martin served as gamemaster. [3]
Bieten, Laubbieten, Lab bietn or Labbieten (in South Tyrol) or Bavarian Poker (German: Bayrischer Pocker) [1] is a card game that is popular in the Austrian Tyrol and the Bavarian Prealps. It used to be a game frequently played by timber rafters and muleteers. It can be seen as a precursor to the traditional Tyrolean game of Perlaggen.
Wild card most commonly refers to: Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games; Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff place awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play; Wild card, wild cards or wildcard may also refer to:
Wild Card [a] is a 2001 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the WonderSwan Color.It was Square's first original title for the platform. The player takes on the role of a protagonist going through a series of freely-available scenarios, building the world based on character interactions.